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“Together, these three projects [the Ismaili Centre, Toronto, the Aga Khan Museum, and their Park] will symbolise the harmonious integration of the spiritual, the artistic and the natural worlds – in keeping with the holistic ideal which is an intimate part of Islamic tradition. At the same time they will also express a profound commitment to inter-cultural engagement, and international cooperation.”
Mawlana Hazar Imam, Toronto, Canada, May 28, 2010
Source: www.theismaili.org/cms/1010/
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“The [Aga Khan] Museum will also belong to the large Muslim population living in Canada and the USA. It will be a source of pride and identity for all these people, showing the inherent pluralism of Islam, not only in terms of religious interpretations but also of cultural and ethnic variety. Furthermore, the museum will show, beyond the notoriously politicised form of Islam which now tends to make headlines, Islam is in reality an open-minded, tolerant faith capable of adopting other people’s cultures and languages and making them its own.”
Mawlana Hazar Imam, Paris, France, October 17, 2007
Source: www.akdn.org/Content/244/
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“The focal point of the Toronto [Ismaili] Centre will be a circular prayer hall, dedicated to spiritual reflection, while other spaces will provide for deeper engagement with the broader community among whom Ismailis live… The building will feature a crystalline frosted glass dome — standing like a great beacon on top of a building that is itself at the highest point of the site — and illuminating the Prayer Hall and its Qibla wall.”
Mawlana Hazar Imam, Toronto, Canada, May 28, 2010
Source: www.theismaili.org/cms/1010/
“[The Aga Khan] Museum’s focus on the arts of Islam will make it a unique institution in North America, contributing to a better understanding of Islamic civilisations — and especially of the plurality within Islam and of Islam’s relationship to other traditions… It will honour the central place within Islam of the search for knowledge and beauty. And it will illuminate the inspiration which Muslim artists have drawn from faith, and from a diverse array of epics, from human stories of separation and loss, of love and joy — themes which we know reverberate eloquently across the diverse cultures of humanity.”
Mawlana Hazar Imam
Foundation Ceremony of the Ismaili Centre, Toronto
the Aga Khan Museum and their Park
Toronto, Canada
May 28, 2010
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“[The Aga Khan] Museum’s focus on the arts of Islam will make it a unique institution in North America, contributing to a better understanding of Islamic civilisations — and especially of the plurality within Islam and of Islam’s relationship to other traditions… It will honour the central place within Islam of the search for knowledge and beauty. And it will illuminate the inspiration which Muslim artists have drawn from faith, and from a diverse array of epics, from human stories of separation and loss, of love and joy — themes which we know reverberate eloquently across the diverse cultures of humanity.”
Mawlana Hazar Imam, Toronto, Canada, May 28, 2010
Source: www.theismaili.org/cms/1010/
“The lasting legacy of Prophet Muhammad [peace be upon him and his family] is the strong suffusion of the mundane, of daily life, with the sense of the spiritual. This prophetic example remains a source of emulation for Muslims everywhere, in every age.”
Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN): An Ethical Framework
Source: www.iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=101094
“The lasting legacy of the Prophet Muhammad [peace be upon him and his family] is the strong suffusion of the mundane, of daily life, with the sense of the spiritual. This prophetic example remains a source of emulation for Muslims everywhere, in every age.”
Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN): An Ethical Framework
Source: www.iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=101094
“The Ismaili Imamat is a supra-national entity, representing the succession of Imams since the time of the Prophet… [The Shia] believed that the Prophet had designated his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, as his successor… In time, the Shia were also sub-divided over this question, so that today the Ismailis are the only Shia community who, throughout history, have been led by a living, hereditary Imam in direct descent from the Prophet.”
Mawlana Hazar Imam
Address to Parliament of Canada
Ottawa, Canada
February 27, 2014
Source: www.akdn.org/Content/1253
“The Ismaili Imamat is a supra-national entity, representing the succession of Imams since the time of the Prophet… [The Shia] believed that the Prophet had designated his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, as his successor… In time, the Shia were also sub-divided over this question, so that today the Ismailis are the only Shia community who, throughout history, have been led by a living, hereditary Imam in direct descent from the Prophet.”
Mawlana Hazar Imam, Address to Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, February 27, 2014
Source: www.akdn.org/Content/1253
“The Shia… maintained that while the revelation ceased at the Prophet's death [peace be upon him and his family], the need for spiritual and moral guidance of the community, through an ongoing interpretation of the Islamic message, continued. They firmly believed that the legacy of Prophet Muhammad could only be entrusted to a member of his own family, in whom the Prophet had invested his authority through designation… Hence, according to Shia doctrine, the Imamat continues by heredity in the Prophet's progeny through Ali and Fatima.”
Quoted from “The Ismaili Imamat” by The Institute of Ismaili Studies
Source: http://iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=110993
